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(Yes, you apply to join, and they send a pin number)

or, if you have credits for GR Records, it's on their British Newspaper Archive too...as below (sorry, can't help there)


Daily Gazette for MiddlesbroughNorth Yorkshire, England1 Dec 1888
SAD DEATH OF A CLERGYMAN'S WIFE Jane Thacker, aged 37, described as the wife of the Key. T. W. Thacker, a clergyman at Birkenhead. It seemed that the deceased had been separated from her husband for nine years, aud during the past three years was housekeeper to Mr W. J. C. A. Gort

No mention of children, but a John Pendell, secretary to Bonner Road Childrens Home, knew her from 8 years ago...

(also, if you google his name, 2 old queries come up, not sure if you)

Chris :)

Thank you all so much! You are all so good at this.

I have 'googled' Thomas, Mary Jane and Walter over the years to no avail. I just wonder why it was in the news in North Yorkshire. She died in London. She worked in the Children's home.

The Founder and Principal of the Home was a Rev. Thomas Bowman Stephenson...(quite a bit on google) perhaps he knew Thomas Thacker!.

Chris :)


1891

GORTON, Chester M Head Married M 69 1822 Perfumer
New York
U S A
GORTON, Nancy Wife Married F 45 1846
London V
WALLER, Jas Servant Single M 28 1863 General Servant
Hertfordshire
Piece:
167 Folio:
114 Page:
42 Registration District:
Islington
Civil Parish:
Islington Municipal Borough:
Address:
397, City Road, Islington, London County:
London

(she was a Housekeeper to above for 3 years)

This was the reply I had from The National Children's Home Archivist in 2006

'I regret that the indexes to William Bradfield's The Life of the Revd T B
Stephenson (1913) and to the histories of NCH written by Cecil F
Walpolethe and published in the 1940s do not include the name of Thacker.

It is just possible that Francis Horner's Shadow and Sun (1920), a
narrative account of the early days of the Home by one of its co-founders,
makes a reference but unfortunately there is no index ! (As you know, we
hold copies of these books her, ref. D541/D3/4 for Mr Horner's work.)

I had a look at the London section of the annual reports for c. 1881 and
did not notice the name of Thacker.

It is just possible that there is a reference in the minutes of the General
Committee (1869 onwards) and / or of the Finance Sub-Committee (1878 - 81 and 1894 onwards) but I think NCH would have to give consent so that she could herself consult such records here to see if anything is to be found.'

I haven't followed this up yet. I am concentrating at the moment on finding more about Walter Thacker for my mother (her father).

Mary Jane died of a 'sudden syncope (heart attack), disease of the liver and lungs. Intemperate habits'